David Sirois: End public-employee guaranteed pensions

Tim White's Target 12 Eyewitness News pension report should become the number one reason for the private sector to reform public-employee pensions by ending them. This report should have every private sector taxpayer completely up in arms, committed

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Posted Nov. 19, 2013 @ 7:10 am

Tim White's Target 12 Eyewitness News pension report should become the number one reason for the private sector to reform public-employee pensions by ending them. This report should have every private sector taxpayer completely up in arms, committed to a complete tax revolt if nothing is done.

I would be willing to bet that, after the exodus of good-paying, middle-class-creating jobs over the past four decades, the average government worker makes more money than private sector workers and what their taxes can support.

It needs to stop. The pension process of the last four decades has left the poor getting poorer, the private sector middle class disappearing, and the government workers living better than all but the rich and ultra rich.

The solutions are simple. Reduce the size of government. Reduce spending. Treat all government workers the same as most of us: pay them and let them save for themselves. No guaranteed pensions ever again. Or, better yet, get rid of all the public-employee unions.

Government has never had any business being in the pension business and it's not our fault that the pension system was created by biased government workers, managed by biased government workers, and ultimately mishandled by these same government workers. Yet, the private sector always has its pockets picked by these government workers to continually pay these ridiculous guaranteed pensions.